See the Moment a Children’s Christmas Pageant Goes Hilariously Awry

Practice tends to make perfect, but sometimes there is simply no accounting for a child’s desire to hold baby Jesus.

During a Christmas pageant at her church earlier this month, Tana Benson’s daughter was playing a sheep in the nativity scene, when she suddenly decided to take Jesus out of the manger and carry him around the altar. The little girl playing Mary, however, was not amused by the doll being removed from its bed, and what happened next had the entire audience in a fit of laughter.

Watch the adorable moment unfold below:

My little sheep took the baby Jesus, breaking all the rules leaving poor little Mary no choice but to take action! Momma to the rescue tried her best to protect her baby at all costs. Definitely a program I will remember. LOVE these kiddos and my church family! Laughed so hard I cried!

“My little sheep took the baby Jesus, breaking all the rules leaving poor little Mary no choice but to take action,” Benson captioned the video, which has racked up nearly six million views, on Facebook. “Momma to the rescue tried her best to protect her baby at all costs. Definitely a program I will remember. LOVE these kiddos and my church family! Laughed so hard I cried!”